Salt Lake Trib, April 26, 2017“In a 2017 BYU commencement address L. Whitney Clayton, a senior president of the LDS Church’s Quorums of the Seventy … encouraged students to be wary of former church members who have abandoned LDS teachings. … “The faithless often promote themselves as the wise, who can rescue the rest of […]
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RSS feed for this sectionEyring: Don’t Focus on Facts When Students Doubt
“‘And Thus We See’: Helping a Student in a Moment of Doubt” [address to Church Educational System religious educators, Feb. 5, 1993], 3, 4; si.lds.org “In your love for them you may decide to try to give them what they ask. You may be tempted to go with them through their doubts, with the hope that you […]
LDS Church Teaches Missionaries to Speak in ‘Adult Language’
The talk we’re looking at today has to be one of the strangest I’ve seen in awhile. For the sake of brevity, I’ve pulled a few quotes to compare w/ God’s word. Church News, 2019 Mission Leadership Seminar The Book of Mormon is the most powerful written witness in existence that Jesus is the Christ…said […]
LDS: Religious Truth Based on Emotions, not Proof
Mormon Newsroom, October 4, 2007“You will not get to know it [whether the Book of Mormon is true] by trying to prove it archaeologically, or by DNA, or by anything else…Religious truth is always confirmed by what you feel. And that’s the way heavenly father answers prayers.” — M. Russell Ballard Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and […]
Nelson’s Priority Deliberately Leads Mormons AWAY from Jesus
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33 [emp. added] Fireside focuses on families Deseret News, February 7, 2005 Don’t put off having children, LDS Church apostle tells students PROVO — College students should not put off creating families until they have completed all of their studies, […]
Apostle Oaks’ Stunning Admission: No Conversion Experience
Today we’re looking at an LDS Fireside Meeting from 2016 when Mormon apostle Dallin Oaks participated in a Q&A type forum with young adults here in the Puget Sound area. The meeting was recorded and uploaded on both YouTube, and SoundCloud. We retrieved our info from Stuff You Missed in Sunday School. What he said was disturbing because […]
Apostle Renlund Contradicts Joseph Smith at BYU Devotional
Worldwide Devotional, ‘Doubt Not, but Be Believing,’ January 2019“Doubt is not and will never be the precursor of faith any more than light depends on darkness for its creation.” – Dale G. Renlund 1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Mr. Renlund sure busied […]
BYU Devotional Slams Doubters
‘And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.’ Acts 17:11 It goes without saying all of the doctrinal teachings put out by the LDS Church falls way short of biblical accuracy. Today’s example is no exception, and […]
Whom Do Mormons Adore? Jesus, or Joseph?
Christmas Devotional, “Oh, Come, Let Us Adore Him — and the Plan!,” December 2015“I feel certain that, as premortal spirits learning of the plan of salvation, we not only beheld and adored but also shouted for joy when he voluntarily and humbly offered himself as the Savior of the world. In five of the most […]
Mormonism: We’re Good People and do Good Things, Just Like Heavenly Father
BYU Devotional, ‘Ordinances and Covenants: Gifts of Power, Peace, and Healing,’ 16 October 2018 “Our covenants help us in every aspect of our lives. We are good people. We do good things. We lift others even though, at times, we may need lifting ourselves. We have faith and stand as witnesses of God. We have patience […]